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Educating and mobilizing parents and caregivers across the nation around healthy kids and communities. Our work focuses on healthy schools and public spaces, marketing to kids, healthy drinks, dismantling the school to prison pipeline; amplifying resilience and decreasing trauma with social-emotional development practices in grades K-12.

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Childcare & Early Education Food! Maternal Justice

Top #5Actions of the Past Week: May 15, 2020

05/15/20
It's another Friday. The weather is warming and we are DOING IT, friends. This is a hard time. Thank you for all you're doing for yourself, your family, your community and this nation. We see you, and we're honored to work alongside you. This week's list of top #5Actions includes some urgent calls...
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Karen Showalter
2020 Census
Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

This Dia de las Madres (Mother's Day) Help us Secure our Children’s Future Through A Full Census Count

05/07/20
As families practice “safer-at-home” measures, school their children in virtual classrooms, and abstain from most of their usual activities before this public health crisis, we have all been reminded of the importance of safety and the future. This means ensuring a full and accurate count of everyone in the 2020 Census. And while research has made it clear that we need more creative strategies to reach and encourage Latino families to include their young children in the census, it is incumbent on all of us to do our part in making sure everyone in our networks is counted.
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Lizette Escobedo
MomsRising
Breastfeeding Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice MomsRising Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy

MomsRising’s COVID-19 Priorities: April 2020

04/28/20
Editor’s Note: This information is accurate as of today, 4/28/2020. These policies are continuing to evolve at the federal level, as well as at the state levels, and they may change, so please check back here on the MomsRising blog regularly for updated information. All policies addressing this...
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Virtual Learning
Social & Emotional Development

Beyond Covid-19 - To Learn Virtually Or Not

04/21/20
Virtual learning has been in existence pre-COVID-19; since 1990 to be specific, and yet distance education for young and adult learners is quickly becoming necessary, newly affordable, and potentially ideal for many as they move into the future.
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Parenting during a global pandemic: Don't be so hard on yourself and your feelings are valid

04/09/20
Are you trying to survive quarantine with kids? Has Parenting during COVID-19 driving you a little bit crazy? Do you feel like your kids are testing you every. minute. of. the. damn. day?
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Diana Limongi
Maternal Justice MomsRising Politics & Policy

Take Action: Cuomo is using COVID-19 to roll back Cash Bail Reforms!

04/01/20
Too many families are forced to experience the inhumane realities of what it is to be incarcerated inside of a New York jail, especially one like Rikers Island, for no other reason than their inability to pay cash bail. The same was true for 16-year-old Kalief Browder who was tortured for over...
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Tell Facebook: Pull the Plug on Messenger Kids App!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/6912/?source=action">Tell Facebook: Pull the Plug on Messenger Kids App! </a>

Young kids don't need to spend time on social media!

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Tell Facebook: Pull the Plug on Messenger Kids App!

Stop the Trump Administration from Legalizing Discrimination!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/12412/?source=action">Stop the Trump Administration from Legalizing Discrimination!</a>

The Trump Administration's Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule that would make it legal for HHS-funded agencies and programs to discriminate against women, religious minorities, nonreligious people, and LGBTQ+ people. SIGN to oppose!

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QUICK SIGNATURE: NO taxpayer dollars for Trump's discrimination proposal!

Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7162/?source=action">Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!</a>

Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress are proposing significant cuts to SNAP in the Farm Bill, as well as creating unnecessary and harmful barriers to access. SIGN OUR LETTER NOW & tell Congress to protect SNAP!

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Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!

Tell your U.S. Representative: Hands off SNAP!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7332/?source=action">Tell your U.S. Representative: Hands off SNAP!</a>

ALL HANDS ON DECK: We need you to deliver a letter to your U.S. Representative's local office NOW to protect SNAP! Sign up here and we'll send you everything you need.

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Tell your U.S. Representative: Hands off SNAP!

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